We always call suits clubs, diamonds, spades and hearts. They're symbols. But what happens if we change the symbol for the real thing? And Jacks for butlers, and Kings and Queens for... Well, Kings and Queens. Here you have the answer!

For whatever the reason, this deck was stuck at my atelier, until some last moment inspiration helped to make it out. Majors-only Tarot deck with a light medical theme, always remember those people who take care of us.

You'll never see a deck so trustful with the concept of "luck". "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" (Fortune is the empress of the wolrd) is the second chant of famous classical composition "Carmina Burana", and also the personal motto of the author. Spanish layout deck without figures, standard suits with cards 1-13

Cabinets of curiosities (also known in German loanwords as Kunstkabinett, Kunstkammer or Wunderkammer; also Cabinets of Wonder, and wonder-rooms) were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings), and antiquities. "The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction." Standard grunged poker deck with 2 jokers.

A much needed remake from one of my favourite oracle decks. New design and orientation, and plenty of new Ouija boards: their design fascines me, and I know I am not the only one. Remember always to say "goodbye" when closing the deck. Nobody knows...

Is there life beyond death? We can't tell for sure, but Spiritism was a frenzy among society a couple centuries ago. Truth or not, here's a shocking collection of seances, materializations, ghosts and dancing tables, in the form of a standard Poker deck.

A winner deck! All Jokers! A funny collection of jokers: minstrels, clowns, merchants, players... Also a homage to one of the most charismatic Tarot cards: The Fool. Standar 52 cards deck: for obvious reasons, there's no jokers added.

Theda Bara, born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
Bara was one of the most popular actresses of the silent era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname The Vamp.
Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and retired
from acting in 1926 having never appeared in a sound film. She died of stomach cancer on April 7, 1955, at the age of 69.

My humble tribute to one of the screen legends I admire the most: Bela Lugosi. While alwaya typecasted as Count Dracula,
he was an accomplished stage actor, yet never had the luck to leave Poverty Row. He was able to showcase plenty of roles, as these 22 major arcana demonstrate.

A vintage style Poker deck, featuring one of the most famous killers in history: Jack The Ripper, the terror of Whitechapel. Cards shows documents and facsimiles from 1888, and all the fascination by a case that is still unresolved.

Another example of bibliomancy deck, this time dealing with famous Michel de Notredame (Nostradamus) much discussed prophecies. Deck includes random numbers over the numerals that can be useful on numerology tasks.

This deck was a special comission from long-time friend Miguel Aceytuno, author and navigator, as a special gift for his colleagues and crew. Original cards were designed to be printed professionally in a vert limited edition.Hence the seafaring theme, and the custom suits: anchors, regatta cups, sailor knives and nautical coins. Standard Spanish Poker pattern with two jokers. We are glad to share this very special deck with all Orphalese users.

Those who know me are aware of my passion about flight sims. Been playing and collecting them since I was a young lad
with an XT IBM PC. While sorting my collection, noticed I had plenty of related graphic stuff, so I gave this a try.
Very aggressive and great art on those software covers. Standar poker deck with 2 jokers, custom suits and air roundels for decoration.

Once again Mr Campos pushes back the frontiers of what a Tarot deck might look like with this
playful experiment combining an image of an empty oil can, a standard Marseille Tarot deck and
the transparency feature of the Orphalese Taort program.

I learned by sheer chance that vintage matchboxes collection is a pocket universe on its own.
After investigating a little, I discovered a very naive world, so full of powerful symbolism and plenty of fun.
Some art is laughable, I concede, but another can stand on its own against traditional Tarot illustrations.
It was a very complex work to assemble this, so all I hope is all of you to enjoy the concept.

Skat is a 3-player trick-taking card game devised in early 19th-century Germany. Along with Doppelkopf it is the most popular card game in Germany and Silesia.
Appropriately, this deck takes German postage stamps as its theme. All in all an interesting deck which is worth a second look.

Probably everyone of a certain generation remembers these posters or if you were lucky you might even have had a personalised one
on your wall. In fact they have a long historical association with this distinctly Spanish fiesta.
The deck itself is modelled carefully after a Heraclio Fournier original and uses the Spanish pips with the numeration of
a standard poker deck.

"Bibliomancy" is a divinatory art in which you form a question, open the Bible to a page at random and check for an answer.
We've made this procedure much easier with this oracle deck, complete with true random Bible quotes and illustrations.

This deck takes up the theme of the Palmistry Deck elsewhere on this page and further explores the world of Chiromancy. The deck uses the
the standard Spanish Heraclio Fournier poker pips, and the great variety of the sources the images are taken from
leaves the user with a visually rich sensation.

This deck includes an army of giant mechanoids divided into four fighting units: Beams, Bolts, Missiles and Guns,
with the marjor arcana suitably represented with such themes as "Blind Justice", "The Lone Wolf" or "Lucky Strike".
A deck "full of futuristic weapons and tons of menacing metal".

I visited once an occult fair, and I saw a card reader who was using a really tattered Tarot. That deck should be very powerful,
so I tried to emulate this in Orphalese. Standard Rider-Waite deck that has been used and abused heavily: hence its power.

Don't be fooled into thinking this is a standard tarot deck when you see it has seventy-eight
cards. This deck features portraits of women from European art, from the Renaissance to more recent times,
organised into six standard 13 playing card suits, the extra suits being cresent moons and stars.
In an extra twist, instead of having just black and red, each one is associated with its own color.

A collection of North Korean propaganda images features hard working yet well fed peasants,
fearless, well fed combat soldiers, victorious well fed sportsmen and handsome, sage and particularly
well fed leaders. It even celebrates the famous occasion that North Korea won the soccer world cup.

Hanafuda or "Game of the Flowers" is the traditional deck of playing cards in Japan. It is divided in 12 suits of 4 cards each,
equivalent to the months of year, and each devoted to a kind of flower. The art on the cards depicts traditional Chinese and Japanese themes.

This is a really beautiful deck with intriguing possibilities for divination.

This deck captures classic moments from the movies and TV shows of the iconic Monty Python comedy team. A team that was never
afraid to make fun of life's more serious aspects and for whom no subject was taboo. The meaning of love, life, death, religion
and the importance of avoiding after dinner mints (even the wafer thin ones), is all present in these cards.

This is a fun deck in a dark kind of way. It uses images from Victorian era advertising and
original poison bottle labels, mostly real but some mischievously invented. At the same time the faded colours
used in the deck give it a pleasing antique feeling.

This is something I owed to the Community since I put the James Bond Tarot on the Exchange. That was a joke based on "Live And Let Die" movie: Roger Moore tricks
Solitaire using a Tarot of the Witches where all the cards are the same: The Lovers.
So here's a true 007 Tarot, shaken, not stirred. with all cards and plenty of glorious Bond moments.

Coins, Chalices, Crosses and Candles. From the Pope to the Apocalypse, through Angels, Martydom, Temperance
and Justice, The Devil and the House of God, the iconography of medieval Christianity is perfectly
at home in the Tarot arcana. Our master deck creator takes the theme which he started in "The Very Holy Deck"
and expands it into a full Tarot, complete with a sumptuous background.

Our resident deck creator has explored many divinatory systems, several of which can be found on this page, but
until now Chiromancy or Palmistry has not been one of them.

This deck comes to fill that gap, while at the same time
illustrating the program's adapatibility to non-rectangular cards. The illustration shows the cards against a white
background but these cards are crafted as simple hand shapes that will display correctly against any background.

Our resident deck creator delves into one of the dark corners of history with this latest deck,
bringing together some graphic images of human suffering and resilience in the face of oppression, and
featuring a range of the key players of the period, from the pious monarchs who set it in motion to the Grand Inquisitor
Tomás de Torquemada himself.

This full Tarot deck comes with an extra courtesy card and a special background designed
to accompany the deck.

This deck is another special landmark as it is the fiftieth deck created by F.J.Campos for this
collection. The decks on this page are arranged chronologically with new ones always added
at the top, and the earliest ones date back almost to the program's first release in 2002. It doesn't make the
collection quite as long lived as The Doctor but as a traveller through time who contiually reinvents himself
his appearence now is strangely appropriate!

Here we see him in all his various incarnations to date, accompanied by friends and foes alike.
This is a nostalgic treat for anyone who remembers hiding behind the sofa from Daleks and Cybermen back before
color TV came along, and will also be an enjoyable reference for any of his more recent followers.

This deck draws together a rich sample of religous iconography to inspire and console
the user through life's spiritual journey. And as the deck's creator says, inspiration can
sometimes take you in unexpected directions...

F.J.Campos returns with his first deck for Orphalese in several years, and how perfect that it is a special
edition to commemorate version 10.0 of the Orphalese Tarot! In this deck he reprises some of his favorite themes in
a sepia tinted vision of mystery, magic and mortality. The deck comes with its own special background designed for the
program and includes a joker and a deck information card.

This deck will have you digging around in the back of your "useful things" drawer for those
3-D glasses you got when you went to see that Friday the 13th
marathon some time towards the end of the last century. Unfortunately I can't find mine so
the definitive review of this deck will have to be from the first person who can...
we know it will be chillingly good!

This is an oracle deck based on the five elements of Chinese astrology
(Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth), and their associations.
The fectching paintings that comprise the deck each capture some
aspect of their associated element. This deck is sure to steal your heart!

By the power of Greyskull we bring you...a new deck from Dominatrix, full of
dark shadows and strange illusions.
There is plenty of skullduggery going on in this deck, but can you spot where?
Don't be a bonehead, open your eye sockets!

Well here it is, merry Christmas, everybody's having fun...you know that time
has come when you see the official Orphalese Tarot release for the season ;-)

The Magus otherwise known as Dominatrix has taken the four principle themes of
Santas, Gifts, Mistletoe and Christmas trees for the houses in this deck, but he
has also blended some other more general holiday motifs...Can you spot them?

This subtly blended deck is drawn from the kind of beautiful illustrations
that used to fill books about nature before the camera put an end to this tradition.
Here we can see how the diversity
of forms and colours in the avian order can offer a rich vocabulary for illustrating
many human thoughts and feelings.

The Alchemical Emblems Tarot is a collaborative venture between our
resident artist F.J.Campos (Dominatrix) and Orphalese user Adam McLean. The full size
pieces that Adam has created over recent years, based on the coloring of original
medieval plates,
have already been the subject of one deck by Dominatrix, but this time he
has used graphically rich scans of the original works to produce a luxury high
resolution deck, now published in England in a special
limited
edition run. This Orphalese-friendly set of images is a great addition
to this page and a wonderful gift for Orphalese users.

I hadn't come across the expression "retrofuturism" before, but I
agree with the deck's creator that it is the perfect word to describe
this deck, a result of crossing a
traditional Lenormand deck with a collection of 50's Sci-Fi covers.

For all you lovers of animal decks out there (and we know there
are a lot of you!) our art department brings you the Apocalipse des Animaux.
A classic Etteila layout for a lovely Tarot,
based on nature engravings of the past century.
A true feast for eyes and spirit.

It is impossible to choose a representative card for this deck. What
the artist has done is to give each of these 78 cards its own
unique identity. These cards are like letters in a visual alphabet which,
when set along side each other, form words and speak.
It is a fantastic achievement.

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a
creature was stirring, not even a mouse...Well, just one: that of our deck
creator extraordinaire as he laboured long into the night,
preparing the special seasonal treat which we can now reveal...

The deck takes a unique approach, having a classical Major Arcana,
plus 30 oracle type cards, ideal for creating seasonal greeting cards via
the program's Screen Capture feature. So find yourself a comfortable
corner and chase away the winter blues with a glass of
your favourite tipple, and a leisurely browse through this heart-warming
collection.

This new tarot deck offers us a trip back in time to the era of
Vaudeville theatre in the United States and Europe. Roll up, roll up and
enjoy a short series of theatrical advertisements which includes many minor
masterworks of the time. The appeal of these works lies in the way that
their creators managed to imbue them with both intentional
humour and real artistic quality, and the collection has been sealed with
our deck compositor's habitually deft touch.

Was that a face at the window? Were those the gate
hinges creaking in the wind? Nah. Stop being silly and get back to the card table.
You only need the ace of skulls to make a heeeeeeeeeell of a good hand...

Once again Dominatrix has thought outside the box to brings this aptly-named
deck which combines wisdom, folly, humour and perplexity in
a new collection of fifty-two cards, guaranteed to bring something to any situation.
But what?

What better introduction to the Novelty
Tarot than the author's own comment in the PackInfo file: "A totally unneeded
sequel to the Joke Tarot, full of stupid cards with obscure
meanings... A good example of what a twisted mind can do using
Orphalese".

Unneeded? We don't agree! We all need a bit of
laughter therapy from time to time, and this deck is
the perfect prescription.

Dominatrix has been secretly working on
this deck since a few weeks ago when someone casually mentioned
in the forum that there was a big deck-shaped black hole where this
tarot deck ought to be (thank you, Marvin!).

At long last some of the choicest moments from the
entire show have been collected together in this deck. Lister (the
last human) and his non-human companions boldly go where
no man, cat, android, hologram or blob have gone before...

The Tarot of the Magicians is a feast for the eyes. Based on the rich imagery of old stage magic
and theatrical conjuring, the deck is well researched and features many famous magicians from
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The sepia court cards are decorated with poker-style
pips and are clearly differentiated from the Majors and the "people" cards which appear in
full colour. The deck was a long term project and the time and care taken to put the collection
together is obvious.

The deck also includes such treats as the astonishing feat of self decapitation and
head levitation that illustrates the Fool: do not attempt this at home.

An Orphalese version of the deck by Mademoiselle Le Normand, the famous French
mystic. This deck is used with the Lenormand Spread and the cards themselves
include divinatory meanings written in English.

An Orphalese version of the deck by Mademoiselle Le Normand, the famous French
mystic. This deck is used with the Lenormand Spread and the cards themselves
include divinatory meanings written in Spanish.

This is a tarot deck based on the masterworks of Gustave Doré (1832-1883), among
the most famous book illustrators of the XIX Century. This deck has a special
place in this collection because as well as paying homage to the Quixote
anniversary, it also doubles as a commemorative deck for the release of version
six of the program.

Here are seventy-eight cards that will amuse and delight every lover of the hop.
Although this deck does not take itself seriously, it shows the artist's
habitual care and attentiveness in choosing the right image for the occasion.
Cheers!

Elements, Phials, Daggers and Pentacles comprise the suits in this
deck which is dedicated to the great legacy of the alchemists.
It draws on the art work of Adam McLean whose
Alchemy Web Site is probably the richest and most authoritative
source of alchemical material available on the web today.
The task of
choosing a single representative card for this page was unusually difficult, as
the images are so beautiful and simple, and each illustration seems so at home
in this remarkable collection.

They say nostalgia isn't what it used to be... but maybe the
haven't seen this new offering from our resident artist. The elegance and
optimism of a bygone age is captured in this full 78 card deck inspired by what
the world of advertising used to be in the days before digital technology had
even be dreamed of.

A tribute to the premier fantasy illustrator of recent years, the deck brings
together a small sample of Michael Whelan's work seen on the covers of books,
magazines and record albums. Even those not familiar with the science fantasy
genre will recognise some of the illustrations in this deck, which have been
carefully selected to represent the themes of the tarot.

The Albareda Tarot is a collaborative work between F.J. Campos and
tarot scholar Josep Lluis Albareda, and reflects the Albareda's research into
the relationship of the Tarot to the Kabala and other occult systems. The
artist has managed to compress a wealth of symbolism into each card, while
retaining an uncluttered and orderly feel to the whole deck.

Totemic animal decks are very popular among a lot of card readers
and spiritual people. Now Orphalese has its own too, thanks to Aurora, whose
suggestion inspired our resident artist to create this deck. The deck features
62 animals of totemic significance, with the names of the animals in English
and Spanish.

The Baraja Esquemática or its English version the Key Deck is a
"helper deck", devised by our resident reader Aurora to make the scheme or
outline of a deck easier to read. The simple designs include numbers, letters,
concepts, star signs and elements.

This is another deck inspired from an idea by Aurora. It is a deck
for people who don't know what to ask the tarot. An example might be when a
friend asks for a reading as a birthday gift. They could choose a random
question or theme from a deck, and this question will be the right question to
ask. The 62 questions and themes the deck embraces cover all aspects of life on
a practical, spiritual or emotional level.

Finally we can unveil our first and long awaited round deck. The
deck is based on the works of contemporary fantasy illustators, and comprises a
full major and minor arcana. The images are selected with the artist's
customary insightfulness to capture the character and essence of each card.

This is a complete reworking of the first I Ching deck by
Dominatrix, which can be found on the main website. This version has the look
and feel of traditional oriental hand-printing techniques, and each card
includes simple description of the card's meaning in English and Chinese.

The treasure deck was inspired by an idea from our resident reader
Aurora. She explained how treasure maps (made by cutting and pasting images
from magazines and other sources, and using background colors and affirmations)
can be used for sending an intention to the universe. The artist has used this
idea as a springboard for the Treasure Map Deck, blending a range of images
from everyday life which reflect desires to wish for, obstacles to overcome,
paths to follow, perils to avoid, and a big red X to mark the spot.

This is an electronic version of a non-traditional Tarot, the
Belline Oracle, designed by Edmon circa 1845 and made famous by the clairvoyant
Belline. The the day to day forces and situations portrayed in these cards have
been brought up to date, and presented in a way that refreshes and re-energises
the original deck.

What happens when you cross a ouija board with a tarot deck? You
will find one possible answer here. Based on real ouija and psychic reading
boards, the colours of the boards are exquisite, as the natural wood has been
variously varnished, stained or otherwise treated in each case. I found it
impossible to stifle the occasional gasp as I went through this deck for the
first time.

Following the success of the Soviet Tarot, the artist has created
this deck based on the political propaganda of the allied powers during the
Second World War. Recurrent themes such as the danger of careless talk and the
call to patriotic sacrifice remind us how in such times people can be led to
override their own sentiments for the sake of the "greater good".

The iconography of the Soviet era has been sharply co-opted by the
artist in this humourous and appealing deck. The four suits are represented by
Coins, Stars, Hammers and Sickles, and the Royal Houses have been overthrown
and replaced by Comrade, Commissar and Worker. The Fool is represented by
capitalism, sleepwalking towards the precipice, the Tower is the Kremlin, and
even Uncle Joe puts in an appearance as the Devil.

The high-res version of the Imperatrix Tarot distributed with the
program. Note the number of cards in the pack. While the info file that
accompanies the deck says 78 cards (to facilitate comparative reading), if you
adjust this you will actually find the deck includes a seventy-ninth card - a
courtesy card that comes included according to the best traditions of playing
card design.

Co-inciding with the Dali Centennial Year we are very pleased to
offer this tarot based on well loved and less well known works by the master of
Onirism. The deck is inspired by and is a homage to Dali's work. It is not
connected with any previously published Dali tarot decks.

Why is it that the world of pinball lends itself so well to a
playing card format? It could be the diversity of imagery and colours that are
employed to attract players (the "demo mode" in arcade games or
pinball that is used for this purpose is called "Attract
Mode"). Indeed, a lot of pinball machines show motifs and drawings
directly related with cards. Whatever the reasons, this is a deck you will load
up again and again...

The Old Time Tarot is a majors-only deck which takes vintage
posters from the worlds of advertising, film and politics as its point of
departure. The artist has skillfully blended the names and numeric values of
the cards into the original posters, in a way that makes them indistinguishable
from the original design elements.

A deck based on film posters for classic horror and scary sci-fi
movies such as Them, Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman and Dr Jeckyll
and Mr Hyde, along with more recent horrors such as Silence of the Lambs
and Interview with the Vampire. The additional novelty of the coffin
shapes is created by using the transparency feature included since version four
of the Orphalese Tarot.

In this new edition of the Toy Tarot the major arcana has been
completely reworked and the four suits appear: Coins and Swords (toy ones, of
course), Lollipops and Mugs. The court cards all have their own background
imagery, while retaining the look and feel proper to each deck. Each card is
worth examining: I had a moment of nostalgia when I saw my old skeleton hand
money-box, and I smiled to see that Kermit the Frog has found his way into this
deck - as the Hermit, of course!